Suit accusing SF State of anti-Semitism is dismissed

Friday, 9 March 2018A lawsuit accusing San Francisco State University officials of tolerating and encouraging hostility toward Jews on campus was dismissed Friday by a federal judge, who said the plaintiffs had offered no evidence that administrators showed religious hostility in incidents like the disruption of a speech by Jerusalem’s mayor. But U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said he would consider letting the case proceed if the plaintiffs, a group of Jewish students and their supporters, filed a more convincing case within 20 days. The suit, filed in June, claimed the university had “fostered and sanctioned anti-Semitism from the highest levels.

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